07/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - Visiting Brittany in France, European Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki announced on Friday 7 May that the European Commission had approved the aid granted by French authorities to oyster growers following the abnormally high mortality rate among oysters in the summer of 2009. The high level of mortality was the result of the spread of an oyster virus which developed with the particularly bad weather conditions. More than 1,000 firms in...